The raucous celebration of the new year and the islands’ Nordic heritage culminates in the ritual burning of a longship – and much drinking ...

Events like Wool Week and a deep passion for all things knitting make Scotland’s Shetland Islands a paradise for knitters and crafters.

There’s a moment in the latest season of the BBC crime drama “Shetland” when the camera pans slowly over the cliffs of Eshaness in the north of the island of Mainland, Shetland. Volcanic cliffs drop ...

The knitting organisation launched a crowdfunder after declaring that island's knitting heritage was facing 'serious ...

The Shetland Islands are best known for their ponies, wool and stunning vistas. But the windswept archipelago has also become a hotbed of discontent, and there’s a movement afoot to break away from ...

A significant portion of the Shetland Islands is now available for purchase. Located about 110 miles from mainland Scotland, floating in the North Sea between the Faroe Islands and Norway, is the ...

NOTE: There’s, um, a pretty important update at the bottom of this post. Following a string of links from an Atrios post, I came across this paragraph from a piece a few months ago about the ...

A new law taking force in Scotland this month imposes strict regulations on how government mapmakers draw the Shetland Islands, a modest archipelago located approximately 100 miles off the British ...

Windstar Cruises is out with an unusual new itinerary that focuses on some of the most remote North Atlantic islands. Dubbed Secrets of the Faroe, Shetland & Orkney Islands, the seven-night trip ...

Shetland is an archipelago of a hundred or so islands in the North Sea, featuring ancient hills, valleys and lochs. The string of islands is known for its remote beauty: it's a 12-hour ferry ride to ...

Shetland is more than 100 miles away from the Scottish mainland, as the crow flies. It takes 12 hours to get there from the mainland on a ferry. It is, by any measure, quite far away. But looking at a ...

There's a moment in the latest season of the BBC crime drama "Shetland" when the camera pans slowly over the cliffs of Eshaness, in the north of the island of Mainland, Shetland. Volcanic cliffs drop ...